TruePeopleSearch People Search Scraper

Scrape free US people data from TruePeopleSearch. Returns name, age, birth month and year, other names used, phone numbers, email addresses, current and past addresses, property details, relatives, associates, and business connections for any person in their public records database.

Supports three search modes: find people by name, reverse-lookup a phone number, or reverse-lookup a street address. The site's bot protection is cleared for you automatically.

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TruePeopleSearch Scraper Features

• Extracts 15 fields per profile — name, age, birth date, aliases, phones, emails, current address and its property record, past addresses, relatives, associates, business connections
• Supports three search modes: name search, reverse phone lookup, and reverse address lookup
• Filters search results by state to narrow name and address lookups
• Handles pagination automatically across multi-page result sets
• Returns structured arrays for multi-value fields (phones, emails, relatives, past addresses)
• Clears the site's bot protection automatically — no manual bypass needed
• Respects your maxItems limit as a hard total for the run, batches included, so the bill is the one you asked for

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What Would You Use This For?

• Lead generation — Pull contact info (phone, email, address) for a list of names programmatically
• Reverse phone lookups — Identify who owns an unknown number, including their current city and relatives
• Background research — Find current and past addresses, age, and associates for a specific person
• Skip tracing — Locate individuals using partial name + state combinations
• Data enrichment — Append phone and email data to a name-and-city list at scale
• Journalism / OSINT — Surface public record connections between individuals

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How TruePeopleSearch Scraper Works

1. You provide a name (or phone/address) and optional location filters
2. The actor submits the search to TruePeopleSearch and parses the result listing
3. Each match is saved from that listing with name, age, current city and state, and the profile URL
4. If you turn on detailed, it also opens each person's profile page for phone numbers, emails, the full street address, past addresses, relatives, associates, business connections, employment and education, aliases and property details
5. Results are saved to the Apify dataset, one record per person

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Summary and detailed results

The actor returns summary records by default and detailed records on request. Detailed records carry much more about each person and cost more accordingly.

	Summary (default)	Detailed ("detailed": true)
Name, age	yes	yes
Current city and state	yes	yes
Profile URL	yes	yes
Full street address	no	yes
Phone numbers	no	yes
Email addresses	no	yes
Past addresses	no	yes
Relatives, associates	no	yes
Business connections (company, since)	no	yes
Employment and education history	no	yes
Phone line type, carrier, last reported	no	yes
Address dates and county	no	yes
Relatives' ages, profile links, spouse flag	no	yes
Other names used, birth month and year	no	yes
Property details for the current address	no	yes
Match confirmation (searchedValueMatched)	no	yes
Billed per person	1 record	3 records

Every record carries detailLevel, either "summary" or "full", so you can tell the two apart without checking which fields are present.

Which to use. Summary is enough when you need to know who a number or address belongs to, and it costs a third as much. Turn on detailed when you need to contact the person, or when you need searchedValueMatched — that confirmation is only available on a detailed record.

{
  "searchMode": "phone",
  "phone": "5551234567",
  "detailed": true,
  "maxItems": 1
}

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Input

Name Search

{
  "searchMode": "name",
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "state": "NY",
  "maxItems": 10
}

Reverse Phone Lookup

{
  "searchMode": "phone",
  "phone": "5551234567",
  "maxItems": 5
}

Reverse Address Lookup

{
  "searchMode": "address",
  "address": "123 Main St",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "maxItems": 5
}

Batch — several people in one run

Pass searches to look up many people in a single run. Each entry takes the same fields as a single search, searchMode is inferred from the fields you give, and anything you set at the top level is inherited by every entry. Batching is much faster than one run per person — the site's bot protection is cleared once for the whole batch instead of once per person.

{
  "searches": [
    { "phone": "5551234567" },
    { "phone": "5551234568" },
    { "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Smith", "state": "NY" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 3,
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 1
}

maxItems caps the whole run: that input returns at most 3 records in total, whatever the searches turn up. maxItemsPerSearch then guarantees each entry a share of that budget, so an early number that is linked to a dozen people cannot use it all up and leave the last entry with nothing. One record per person is maxItems equal to the number of entries, with maxItemsPerSearch: 1.

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchMode	string	name	Search mode: name, phone, or address
firstName	string	—	First name (required for name mode)
lastName	string	—	Last name (required for name mode)
city	string	—	City (optional for name mode, required for address mode)
state	string	—	US state abbreviation (e.g. CA, TX, NY) — filters name and address searches
phone	string	—	Phone number, digits only (required for phone mode), e.g. 5551234567
address	string	—	Street address (required for address mode), e.g. 123 Main St
searches	array	—	Batch: a list of searches to run together, instead of one run per person
detailed	boolean	false	Also open each person's profile page (3 billed records per person instead of 1)
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum person records the run returns and is billed for, in total
maxItemsPerSearch	integer	maxItems	Batch only: the most records any one search entry may take from that total

Changed for batch runs. maxItems used to apply per search entry, so 10 numbers with maxItems: 1 returned 10 records. It is now the total for the run — the same meaning it has everywhere else — so that input returns 1. To get one record per person, set maxItems to the number of entries and maxItemsPerSearch to 1. Single searches are unaffected.

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TruePeopleSearch Scraper Output Fields

A summary record (the default) — one billed record per person:

{
  "fullName": "John A Smith",
  "age": 45,
  "currentAddress": "Brooklyn, NY",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/p9abc123def456",
  "detailLevel": "summary",
  "searchIndex": 1,
  "searchedFor": "phone 5551234567",
  "source": "truepeoplesearch"
}

A detailed record ("detailed": true) — three billed records per person:

{
  "fullName": "John A Smith",
  "age": 45,
  "born": "March 1981",
  "alsoKnownAs": [
    "John Allen Smith",
    "Johnny Smith"
  ],
  "currentAddress": "742 Example St Apt 3B, Brooklyn, NY 11201",
  "currentAddressProperty": {
    "bedrooms": "3",
    "bathrooms": "2",
    "squareFeet": "1,850",
    "yearBuilt": "1962",
    "estimatedValue": "$910,000",
    "lastSaleDate": "04/12/2011",
    "occupancyType": "Owner Occupied"
  },
  "pastAddresses": [
    "88-10 Example Blvd, Queens, NY 11373",
    "PO Box 1234, Bronx, NY 10451"
  ],
  "phones": [
    "(212) 555-0123",
    "(718) 555-0456"
  ],
  "emails": [
    "jsmith@example.com"
  ],
  "relatives": [
    "Jane Smith",
    "Robert Smith"
  ],
  "associates": [
    "Michael Johnson"
  ],
  "businessConnections": [
    {
      "name": "Smith Home Services LLC",
      "address": "100 Example Ave Brooklyn Ny 11201",
      "since": "Dec 2014"
    }
  ],
  "employment": [
    { "company": "Smith Home Services LLC", "jobTitle": "Owner", "from": "MAR 2012", "to": "PRESENT" }
  ],
  "education": [
    { "school": "Example State University", "degree": "Bachelor's Degree", "from": null, "to": null }
  ],
  "phoneDetails": [
    { "number": "(212) 555-0123", "type": "Wireless", "carrier": "T-Mobile", "lastReported": "Aug 2026", "isPrimary": true },
    { "number": "(718) 555-0456", "type": "Landline", "carrier": "Verizon", "lastReported": "Mar 2019", "isPrimary": false }
  ],
  "addressHistory": [
    { "address": "742 Example St Apt 3B, Brooklyn, NY 11201", "isCurrent": true, "county": "Kings County", "from": "Mar 2015", "to": "Oct 2026" },
    { "address": "88-10 Example Blvd, Queens, NY 11373", "isCurrent": false, "county": "Queens County", "from": "Jun 2008", "to": "Feb 2015" }
  ],
  "relativeDetails": [
    { "name": "Jane Smith", "age": 44, "relationship": "Possible Spouse", "profileUrl": "https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/p9abc123def457" }
  ],
  "associateDetails": [
    { "name": "Michael Johnson", "age": 51, "relationship": null, "profileUrl": "https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/p9abc123def458" }
  ],
  "profileUrl": "https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/p9abc123def456",
  "detailLevel": "full",
  "searchedValueMatched": true,
  "source": "truepeoplesearch",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-27T08:32:11.000Z"
}

Field	Type	Description
fullName	string	Full name as displayed on the profile
age	integer	Age of the person
born	string	Birth month and year, e.g. March 1981
alsoKnownAs	array	Other names this person appears under in public records
currentAddress	string	Current street address, city, state and zip code
currentAddressProperty	object	Property record for the current address; null if none shown
pastAddresses	array	Previous street addresses, one entry per address
phones	array	Phone numbers associated with this person
emails	array	Email addresses associated with this person
relatives	array	Relatives listed on the profile
associates	array	Associates (co-workers, neighbors, etc.) listed on the profile
businessConnections	array	Connected businesses, each with name, address, since
employment	array	Jobs, each with company, jobTitle, from, to; often empty
education	array	Schools, each with school, degree, from, to; usually empty
phoneDetails	array	Each phone with number, type, carrier, lastReported, isPrimary
addressHistory	array	Every address with address, isCurrent, county, from, to
relativeDetails	array	Each relative with name, age, relationship, profileUrl
associateDetails	array	Each associate with name, age, relationship, profileUrl
profileUrl	string	Full URL of the TruePeopleSearch profile page
source	string	Always "truepeoplesearch"
scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 timestamp of when the record was scraped

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FAQ

Does TruePeopleSearch block scrapers?

TruePeopleSearch runs behind bot protection. This actor clears it for you, which means each page fetch takes longer than a typical datacenter scrape — roughly 10-15 seconds per result. That's the trade-off for getting past the gate. The upside: the data is free on TPS, so even at a higher cost-per-request, you're still ahead of paying data vendors.

How accurate is the data?

Accuracy is determined by TruePeopleSearch's own public records aggregation, not this actor. The actor extracts whatever TPS surfaces — which varies by person. Common names in large states will have many matches; uncommon names in small states may return zero.

Can I search without a state filter?

Yes. For name mode, state is optional. Omitting it returns all matching profiles nationwide, which increases the result set and the number of page requests billed.

Can one lookup return more than one person?

Yes, and often several. A reverse phone lookup returns everyone TruePeopleSearch links to that number, which is typically the household and anyone who held it before — on a number we tested, five of the six people returned carried it on their own profile. A reverse address lookup behaves the same way for the residents of that address. maxItems is how many records you get back and pay for in total; in a batch, maxItemsPerSearch is how many any single lookup may contribute to that total.

What does "reverse phone lookup" return?

For phone mode, TPS returns the profile associated with that number, including name, address, and related people. The actor returns a single person record per matched phone.

Is this data free to use commercially?

TruePeopleSearch aggregates public records. Check TPS's terms of service and applicable privacy laws (CCPA, FCRA) for your jurisdiction before using extracted data commercially.

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Need More Features?

Open an issue or contact support at orbtop.com.

Why Use TruePeopleSearch Scraper?

• Free source data — TPS is one of the only large US people-search engines that doesn't paywall basic contact info
• Three search modes — Name, phone, and address lookups from a single actor
• Clean structured output — Arrays for multi-value fields, typed integers for age, ISO timestamps for ingestion pipelines
• Bot protection handled — the challenge is managed for you, start to finish

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Further reading: How to Get Skip Tracing Data at Scale: People-Search Lookups in Bulk · People Search Data in Bulk: 14 Sources, What Each One Returns